{"id":5435,"date":"2011-06-27T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2011-06-27T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:59:02","slug":"ecological-research-in-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2011\/06\/27\/ecological-research-in-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological research in images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Click the below image to view the photo gallery.)<br>\n<a title=\"High densities of the sea urchin Diadema savignyi on a coral reef in French Polynesia. Uthicke et al. review causes and ecological and evolutionary consequences of large-amplitude population fluctuations in echinoderms. See 2009 Ecological Monographs article, \u201cA boom\u2013bust phylum? Ecological and evolutionary consequences of density variations in echinoderms\u201d by Sven Uthicke, Britta Schaffelke, and Maria Byrne. Photo credit: S. Uthicke.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/urchin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/urchin.jpg\" alt=\"Research in images\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"img-fluid\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Leatherback turtle hatchlings (Dermochelys coriacea) beginning to emerge from the nest at sundown. The number of leatherback nests has been increasing by 10.2% per year on beaches in Florida (USA) over the past 30 years, and the future looks very bright for this species throughout the Atlantic basin. See 2011 Ecological Applications article, \u201cLeatherback nests increasing significantly in Florida, USA; trends assessed over 30 years using multilevel modeling\u201d by Kelly Stewart, Michelle Sims, Anne Meylan, Blair Witherington, Beth Brost, and Larry B. Crowder. Photo credit: K. Stewart.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/baby-turtles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A prescribed fire in an oak hardwood forest in the Uwharrie Mountains of North Carolina, USA. Fesenmyer and Christensen use radiocarbon dates for charcoal fragments in soil to reconstruct the history of fire during the Holocene in a similar southern Appalachian forest. See 2010 Ecology article, \u201cReconstructing Holocene fire history in a southern Appalachian forest using soil charcoal\u201d by Kurt A. Fesenmyer and Norman L. Christensen Jr. Photo Credit: K. A. Fesenmyer.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/fire.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Volvox colony from Salmon Lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. Longmuir et al. show that phytoplankton, zooplankton, and bacterial diversity and community composition are regulated independently among lakes and respond to different environmental variables. See 2007 Ecology article, \u201cIndependent Gradients of Producer, Consumer, and Microbial Diversity in Lake Plankton\u201d by  Allyson Longmuir, Jonathan B. Shurin, and Jessica L. Clasen. Photo credit: A. Longmuir.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A pair of juvenile elephants cavort in the Masai Mara Reserve. Elephants act as ecosystem engineers in African savannas, exerting strong indirect effects on other animals. By damaging trees while browsing and increasing their structural complexity, elephants indirectly increase the abundance of arboreal lizards, which use the crevices in damaged trees for refuge. See 2008 Ecology article, \u201cElephants as Agents of Habitat Creation for Small Vertebrates at the Patch Scale\u201d by Robert M. Pringle. Photo credit: R. M. Pringle.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/elephants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The sea ice in the Canadian Archipelago in early July 2008. Warming of the cryosphere and a hastened and extensive destruction of frozen water provides the key sensitivity to change for the Arctic's carbon cycle. Loss of ice and snow alters transfer of carbon from land to ocean, primary production of terrigenous and aquatic plants, air-water gas exchange, and the access to these regions by humans. See 2009 Ecological Monographs article, \u201cSensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change\u201d by A. David McGuire, Leif G. Anderson, Torben R. Christensen, Scott Dallimore, Laodong Guo, Daniel J. Hayes, Martin Heimann, Thomas D. Lorenson, Robie W. Macdonald, and Nigel Roulet. Photo credit: R. Macdonald.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/warming.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Native Bombus hypocrita robbing nectar from the flower of Corydalis ambigua, by biting the spur. Dohzono et al. study the interactions of native and alien bumble bees and how they affect native plant reproduction. See 2008 Ecology article, \u201cAlien Bumble Bee Affects Native Plant Reproduction through Interactions with Native Bumble Bees\u201d by Ikumi Dohzono, Yoko Kawate Kunitake, Jun Yokoyama, and Koichi Goka. Photo credit: I. Dohzono.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/bee.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus), one of the 610 avian species studied by Hui et al. in their assessment of models for estimating species abundance and community structure from presence\u2013absence maps of the southern Africa avifauna. See 2009 Ecological Applications article, \u201cExtrapolating population size from the occupancy\u2013abundance relationship and the scaling pattern of occupancy\u201d by Cang Hui, Melodie A. McGeoch, Belinda Reyers, Peter Cle Roux, Michelle Greve, and Steven L. Chown. Photo credit: C. Hui.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/kits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Migrating Pacific salmon in Maybeso Creek, southeast Alaska, USA. The nutrients these fish transport from marine environments have been linked to the increased production of stream and riparian ecosystems. Scott D. Tiegs et al. investigate the impact of timber harvest on the ecological role of nutrient transport by salmon. See 2008 Ecological Applications article, \u201cTimber Harvest Transforms Ecological Roles of Salmon in Southeast Alaska Rain Forest Streams\u201d by Scott D. Tiegs, Dominic T. Chaloner, Peter Levi, Janine R\u00fcegg, Jennifer L. Tank, and Gary A. Lamberti. Photo credit: S. D. Tiegs. \" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/salmon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The red colobus monkey (Procolobus rufomitratus) is an endangered species, and the last large viable population of this species is found in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Chapman et al. report on results of a long-term (almost 40 years) study that examines long-term changes in five primate species, including the red colobus, and tries to understand reasons behind population dynamics in relation to changes in forest structure and composition and, for the red colobus, the nutritional value of their available foods. See 2010 Ecological Applications article, \u201cUnderstanding long-term primate community dynamics: implications of forest change\u201d by Colin A. Chapman, Thomas T. Struhsaker, Joseph P. Skorupa, Tamaini V. Snaith, and Jessica M. Rothman. Photo credit: C. A. Chapman.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/monkey.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The scleractinian coral genus Acropora is a competitive dominant in shallow coral reefs. It is highly susceptible to warm-water anomalies that have increased in severity during the past few decades, and it has subsequently lost its dominance over extensive areas of coral reef. T. R. McClanahan et al. demonstrate that these anomalies are associated with periodic oceanographic oscillations overlain on rising seawater temperatures. Acropora and many other corals appear to be more resilient to these disturbances in reefs that have naturally fluctuating temperatures, even in reefs that have among the fastest background temperature rises. See 2007 Ecological Monographs article, \u201cEffects of Climate and Seawater Temperature Variation on Coral Bleaching and Mortality\u201d by Timothy R. McClanahan, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan, Christopher A. Muhando, Joseph Maina, and Mohammed S. Mohammed. Photo credit: T. R. McClanahan.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/coral.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Snow Goose arrives in the nick of time to protect its nest from a marauding arctic fox. Nicholas Lecomte et al. demonstrate a link between the ability of geese to protect their nests from predators and the availability of drinking water. See 2009 Ecology article,\u201d A link between water availability and nesting success mediated by predator\u2013prey interactions in the Arctic\u201d by Nicolas Lecomte, Gilles Gauthier, and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Giroux. Photo credit: N. Lecomte.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/goose.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Monarch butterflies basking in the sunlight at an overwintering site in Mexico. Bartel et al. explore how the monarch's long-distance migration appears to reduce parasite prevalence by purging infected butterflies. See 2011  Ecology article, \u201cMonarch butterfly migration and parasite transmission in eastern North America\u201d by Rebecca A. Bartel, Karen S. Oberhauser, Jacobus C. de Roode, and Sonia M. Altizer. Photo credit: J. C. de Roode.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/butterfly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A female Purple-throated Carib (Eulampis jugularis). On the island of St. Lucia, males and females of this hummingbird species associate primarily with different Heliconia species according to bill morphology and energy requirements. In this issue, Temales et al. examine the feeding performance of males and females at three Heliconia flower morphs. See 2009 Ecology article, \u201cEffect of flower shape and size on foraging performance and trade-offs in a tropical hummingbird\u201d by Ethan J. Temeles, Carolyn R. Koulouris, Sarah E. Sander, and W. John Kress. Photo credit: E. J. Temeles.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/carib.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The conversion of subalpine hay meadows (here in Villar d'Ar\u00e8ne, France) to summer pastures slows nutrient cycling by lowering productivity and litter decomposition rates. See 2007 Ecological Monographs article, \u201cPlants Traits in a State and Transition Framework as Markers of Ecosystem Response to Land-Use Change\u201d by Fabien Qu\u00e9tier, Aur\u00e9lie Th\u00e9bault, and Sandra Lavorel. Photo credit: S. Lavorel.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/france.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Henricia sp. (a starfish) atop Echinus esculentus (a sea urchin) in a benthic sample at Eyjafj\u00f6r\u0111ur, northern Iceland. Lebrato et al. study the contribution of echinoderms to the global marine carbon cycle, challenging the traditional biogeochemical views on the production of CaCO3 biominerals. See 2010 Ecological Monographs article, \u201cGlobal contribution of echinoderms to the marine carbon cycle: CaCO3 budget and benthic compartments\u201d by Mario Lebrato, Debora Iglesias-Rodr\u00edguez, Richard A. Feely, Dana Greeley, Daniel O. B. Jones, Nadia Suarez-Bosche, Richard S. Lampitt, Joan E. Cartes, Darryl R. H. Green, and Belinda Alker. Photo credit: Daniel Jones, SERPENT project.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/starfish.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A female koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) from Victoria, Australia, resting in a fork of a Eucalyptus tree. Moore et al. combine the comprehensive near infrared spectrophotometric determination of foliar chemistry and palatability throughout a eucalyptus woodland with koala movement and tree use data to produce a detailed habitat quality map. See 2010 Ecology article, Palatability mapping: a koala's eye view of spatial variation in habitat quality\u201d by Ben D. Moore, Ivan R. Lawler, Ian R. Wallis, Colin M. Beale, and William J. Foley. Photo credit: Kath Handasyde. \" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/koala.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Parsnip webworm feeding on wild parsnip in The Netherlands. This interaction, present in both Europe and North America, provides a paradigm for examining the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. See 2006 Ecology article \u201cParsnip Webworms and Host Plants at Home and Abroad: Trophic Complexity in a Geographic Mosaic\u201d by May R. Berenbaum and Arthur R. Zangerl. Photo credit: A. Zangerl.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/parsnip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A juvenile loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) being released with satellite transmitter in the Alboran Sea. Scott A. Eckert et al. adapted state-space models to satellite-tag data to estimate movement pathways and relate them to environmental features in the western Mediterranean Sea. See 2008 Ecological Applications article, \u201cModeling Loggerhead Turtle Movement in the Mediterranean: Importance of Body Size and Oceanography\u201d by Scott A. Eckert, Jeffrey E. Moore, Daniel C. Dunn, Ricardo Sagarminaga van Buiten, Karen L. Eckert, and Patrick N. Halpin. Photo credit: S. A. Eckert.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/turtle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Post-disturbance, early-successional forests support a rich and unique diversity of flora and fauna, yet represent a phase of forest development that is often undervalued by forest managers and neglected by researchers. See 2011 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment article, \u201cThe forgotten stage of forest succession: early-successional ecosystems on forest sites\u201d by Mark E Swanson, Jerry F Franklin, Robert L Beschta, Charles M Crisafulli, Dominick A DellaSala, Richard L Hutto, David B Lindenmayer, and Frederick J Swanson. Photo Credit: Penstemon sp growing on a slope near Mount St Helens; ME Swanson\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/mountains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The loss and fragmentation of natural landscapes by human development is one of the main threats to the persistence of large carnivores such as the puma. The conservation of carnivores in complex social-ecological landscapes will require proactive approaches such as that in the models of Burdett et al., which interfaced a traditional wildlife habitat model with one type of human development model being developed in the emerging discipline of land change science. See 2010 Ecosphere article, \u201cInterfacing models of wildlife habitat and human development to predict the future distribution of puma habitat\u201d by Christopher L. Burdett, Kevin R. Crooks, David M. Theobald, Kenneth R. Wilson, Erin E. Boydston, Lisa M. Lyren, Robert N. Fisher, T. Winston Vickers, Scott A. Morrison, and Walter M. Boyce. Photo credit: Eric York and the Wildlife Health Center, University California-Davis.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/puma.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A mother and child return home with firewood across the dry lake at Mopipi dam, Boteti District, Botswana. Reed et al. interviewed pastoralists from this area and combined their knowledge with ecological data to develop indicators that could help pastoralists assess the sustainability of rangeland management. See 2008 Ecological Applications article, \u201cParticipatory Indicator Development: What Can Ecologists and Local Communities Learn from Each Other\u201d by Mark S. Reed, Andrew J. Dougill, and Timothy R. Baker. Photo credit: M.S. Reed.\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[uploads]\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2011\/06\/sunset.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, the American Museum of Natural History launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/calendar\/event\/Picturing-Science:-Museum-Scientists-and-Imaging-Technologies\/\">exhibit<\/a> \u201cPicturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies\u201d which explores the images produced by scientists while performing research. The images range from bug genitalia to staghorn coral (see video at the end of this post). As quoted in a recent <em>Wired Science<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/06\/picturing-science-exhibit\/?pid=1509\">article<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018A lot of people come to the museum under [the] impression that we just look at stuff in dusty jars, but that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth,\u2019 said zoologist <a href=\"http:\/\/research.amnh.org\/%7Esiddall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Siddall<\/a>, curator of the museum\u2019s new exhibit. \u2018There\u2019s a lot of solid, cutting-edge research going on here with incredibly advanced technology.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave Mosher explained in the <em>Wired Science<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/06\/picturing-science-exhibit\/?pid=1509\">article<\/a> that images like these are a large part of any scientific endeavor, but often times, these images are filed away\u2014never to be seen by the public. Of course, there are journals that publish images alongside the research articles. While they are all accessible through searches, these images are not typically displayed like those that are being featured in the AMNH\u2019s new exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>The above photo gallery presents only some of the images that have been featured in the Ecological Society of America\u2019s journals over the last decade or so. Click on the image to scroll through and learn a bit about the research corresponding with each image. Many of the images featured in ESA journals are taken by the researchers themselves. Browse all of the cover images on ESA\u2019s journals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esajournals.org\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click the below image to view the photo gallery.) This week, the American Museum of Natural History launched the exhibit \u201cPicturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies\u201d which explores the images produced by scientists while performing research. The images range from bug genitalia to staghorn coral (see video at the end of this post). As quoted in a recent Wired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114],"tags":[251,38,530,365,457,314,638,661,782,1038,1152,60,7,217,538,17,54,1066,462,1072,95,36,1025,748,594,707,140],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology-about-town","tag-africa","tag-alaska","tag-aquatic-plants","tag-arctic","tag-art","tag-australia","tag-bacteria","tag-bees","tag-butterfly","tag-california","tag-carnivore","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-coral-reefs","tag-ecology","tag-fish","tag-florida","tag-forest","tag-france","tag-images","tag-journals","tag-marine","tag-monarch","tag-mountains","tag-natural-history","tag-salmon","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}